Rubrics as Privileged Information for Open-Ended Generation
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arXiv:2608.02948v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD), where a single model acts as both student and teacher with different contexts, has shown promise in verifiable domains like math, where hard privileged information (PI) in the form of ground-truth answers structurally constrains valid continuations. We extend OPSD to open-ended generation using soft PI in the form of rubrics that guide preferences but admit many valid responses. Rubrics have served as scalar rewards for reinforcement learning (RL); we show that they provide substantially richer signal as dens
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- arXiv:2608.02948v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD), where a single model acts as both student and teacher with different contexts, has shown promise in verifiable domains like math, where hard privileged information (PI) in the form of ground-truth answers structurally constrains valid continuations.
- We extend OPSD to open-ended generation using soft PI in the form of rubrics that guide preferences but admit many valid responses.
- Rubrics have served as scalar rewards for reinforcement learning (RL); we show that they provide substantially richer signal as dens
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